Neverslip for shoes



Aug, 17, 1926. 1,596,288

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PATENT oFElcE.

CHARLES MILLER, Olli'. LONG ISLAN D CITY, NEW YORK'.

NEVERSLIP FOR SHOES.

Application led January 31, 1925. Serial No. 6,047.

This invention relates more particularlyv'.

to a class of devices for use in footwear.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a neverslip device designedy to be employed in footwear for ersons, especlally low styles of shoes, suc as slippers, oxfords, pumps and the like, for preventing the heels of the wearer from tending to slip, in order to permit types of shoes having very low forms of uppers as well as those of standard cut uppers to be comfortably worn. The invention consists essentially of a blank of relatively thin leather or other exible material which is suitably roughened for causing the material to frictionally engage and cling to stockings, and the blank has a strip like body part with an integral extension or tongue.member on' its `upper end portion. The bod part and its tongue d or otherwise fixed on the inner face of the central portion of the heel of the shoe, and these parts are curved to conform with the curvature of the heel. The body part and the ton ue are of such lengths and widths that the ody part covers the lower portion of the seam of the heel of the shoe with its lower end portion lapping upon the inner face of the sole of the shoe and so that the tongue covers the upper portion of the seam of the heel of the shoe.- Protruding in op site lateral directions from the juncture o the body part with the .tongue may be two extensions or 'win members which are also adhesively secure a5 to the inner face of the heel of the shoe for frictionally engaging the upper parts'of the heel of the wearer, while the togue serves to frictionally engage the'part of the foot of the wearer above the heel. Liability of the 4o shoe to slip on. the heel of the wearer will thereby be g eifectually prevented.

A .further object of the invention is to p rovlde a neverslip device for shoes ofA a simple, eilicient and durable construction which may be made in appropriate sizes and shapes. With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully explained with reference to the accompanying rawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.`

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly broken away, showing part. of a persons shoe with one form of my 1mproved neverslip applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the blank from which the devicev is'made, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of'Fig. 2.

The neverslip device is preferably formed from a blank 10 of relat1vely thin leather or other flexible material, and one or both surfaces of the blank may be suitably roughened, as at 11, for frictionally engaging the heelor stocking of the wearer to prevent the heel from-tending to slip when the de-V vice is used in a shoe, as will be hereinafter -more fully explained.

The blank 10 has a strip like body part i 12 which may be of any appropriate shape and size, though the form of the body part illustrated is formed with, side edges tapered -on a downward diverging incline, as at 13,

14, relatively to the vertical center line of the body, and the lower end of the body part may be scalloped or serrated, as at 15, if desired.

On the upper end of the strip like body part 12 is an extension or tongue 16 which protrudes upwardly. This tongue may be of any suitable size and shape, though the form of the tongue shown is solnewhat narrower than the body part 12, and this tongue has upwardly inclined side edges, as 17, 18, andv astraight top edge 19.

Extending in opposite lateral directions from opposite parts of the juncture of the body part 12 with the tongue` 16 of the blank may be two alined wing members or extensions 20, 21. These wing members may also be' of any suitable shapes and sizes, though I prefer to form these wing members of shapes having each a curved lower edge, as 22, and having a straight upper edge, as 23.

While the neverslip thus formed may be employed in any style of shoe it is generally used in conjunction with slippers, pumps and low shoes, as 24. Practically 'all shoes of this type are seamed, as at 25, centrally o the heel portion 26. When the device process of applying the blankit is curved to conform with the curvature of the heel portion. The blank is also arranged so that the tongue 16 and the body part covers the heel seam with the upper edge 19 of the tongue 16 terminating at the upper extremity of the heel and with the serrated end of the body '1 part lapping upon the sole 27 under the sock lining 28 o the shoe. The wing members 20, 21 will then be curved lengthwise of the heel portion 26 of the shoe, as shown in Fig. 1. With the device applied in this manner to the shoe the body part 12 will serve to frictionally engage the lower part of the heel of the foot of the wearer, while the curved lower edges 22 of the wing numbers 20, 21 will frictionally engage the upper parts of the wearer, and the' tongue 16 will frictionally engage the part of the foot of the wearer above the heel. The shoe will thereby be prevented from slipping from the heel of the wearer. Moreover shoes, of this class are usually designed tov t snu ly upon the heel of a person, and as the eel seam is usually formed with extended edges overlapping the inner face of the heel portion of the shoe these overlapping edges frequently tend to uncomfortably press and rub the heel of the foot of the wearer, and by use of the tongue 16 as employed in this improved form of neverslip this commonly known defect is effectually overcome by the tongue covering the edges of the heel seam.

In the foregoing description I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limit-y ing myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore, I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall withln the scope thereofu Having thus described my invention, I

The blank 10 is applied to the portion of the shoe heel of the l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with a low shoe, of a neverslip device comprising a strip-like body part of'roughened relatively thin ilexible material tapered divergingly downward relative to the line of its vertical center and having serrations on its lower end,tl1e body part adhesively secured on the inner face of the central portion of the heel of the shoe integral roughened extension on the upper 'i end ofthe body part above the win members also adhesively secured to the the shoe for engagin the part of the footv of the wearer above t e heel proper.

2. For use in a shoe, a blank-for a neverslip device of roughened relatively thin part having a serrated lower en for being fixed on the inner face of the lower part' of the central portion over the seam of the heel of the shoe,'said body part having on its upper end oppositely disposed curved lateral extensions and the body7 part also having extending from its upper end an u wardly protruding tongue member to be Xedon the inner face of the upper part of the cential portion over. the Seam ofthe heel ofthe s oe.

3. As au article of manufacture, a neverslip device of relatively thin leather havingv an anti-friction member extending upwardly from a body part and above two antislip membersl protruding from the body 'part in opposite lateral directions, said .members adapted to be xed within va shoe to cover the lower part of the heel seam with said anti-friction member covering theother partof the heel. seam to its upper extremity and with the anti-slip members fixed uponv the inner face of the heel part of the "shoe between its lower and upper extremities.

' This specification January A. D. 1925.

CHARLES MILLER.

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